Facebook wrote the load-balancing software, Katran, because existing load balancers can't handle the size of the social media giant's systems. Google is known to fiercely guard its data center secrets ...

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Nginx is a versatile and high-performance server known for its capabilities in web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, and media streaming. Its asynchronous, event-driven architecture ...